How to Quickly Scan your Cherished Old Photos to Digital 

Sure thing! Good luck

So many photos!

Me as well. Not quite sure how 2 organize them 2 make sure I write the correct information on the backs, without having 2 stop 2 turn the pic over 2 look at it. Then turn it over & proceed 2 write the exact message on the back of the new pic & b sure it matches. It just seems like a daunting, intimidating, train wreck, waiting 2 happen. I believe I have 34,657 photos alone. Without even thinking about the videos. So I fully understand. I wonder if a regular, personal use printer is going 2 b able 2 handle that many photos constantly going thru it, so even say 3 hours a day. I need 2 know if this printer will work 4 me? Has anyone used this printer on large amounts of photos?

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Savng them digitally ensures protection from fire. And, they can easily be transferred to family and friends

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It's quiet in my opinion

Oh wow. Yeah I didn't not clean my photos. Mine were mostly protected. Did you store them in albums?

@@TonyFlorida It's a real "mix." Some were in albums, and others were not.

only assuming no compression. As it's interpolated (and pixel values are highly correlated spacially) we should expect less than 4 times. 4 times would be the absolute worst case, which is unlikely to be possible due to the interpolation anyways.

Hey Nadine! Once you have the photos digitized, I would suggest uploading to Google Photos. This will allow you to put your photos into virtual albums and share with family. That's what I did/am doing. Cataloging them takes a really long time as you would imagine with lots of photos.

I didn't have this issue when I went through and scanned my photos

I had this issue when I chose higher quality scans such as 600 DPI in TIFF. But, if I set it to 300DPI and JPEG, it had no issues.

Same with paper, the first photo has enough friction/static to grab the next photo in the tray when being pulled in for scanning. Simply separate the photos and put it back in the stack.

@@TonyFlorida what about scanning photos from1930’s through 1950

Yes, for small wallet photos, you have two options. 1 - Tape them to a piece of paper and scan that paper. The colors might be off, but... 2 - Flatbed scan - These are much higher quality and you can scan multiple photos at once and they're saved as individual photos. The backfire is how long they take.

Probably yea as they use rubbery grip or gear to roll the picture

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Thanks for the feedback! I scanned at 600 dpi because it was an available option and 1200 dpi was too big of file size. I'm sure 300 dpi is just fine. The only reason you really need a higher dpi anyway is if you plan to print and enlarge the pictures.

@@TonyFlorida thank you so much indeed. You helped me a lot.

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Thanks! Sorry, what do you mean by slides?

Older technology. Slides can only be viewed using a projector.

@@sssweedler his comment cracked me up and made me feel so old

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Thanks! I shopped around for cheaper alternatives too, but ended up paying the premium for this scanner since I only wanted to do it once and had thousands of photos

Hi Daniel, the photos that I've scanned are being stored at my parents house. No reason for keeping them.

@@TonyFlorida Thank you Tony. I’m a few days away from finishing the purge/sorting of my family photos. I’m trying to justify buying this product since I only have approximately 700-800 photos and a few boxes of slides that might cost approximately $300. to have professionally scanned.

@@bflathead I do a lot of vhs to digital for ppl it’s sooo time for consuming it’s hard to justify $599 to scan pics if u will prolly never use it again’ can’t believe it so expensive’ sometimes it’s better to know when to call n the pros look for coupons or sales maybe u could get them done for 200-250 on sale I may get this only because I could add photo digitalization to my camcorder and vhs service but still can’t believe it’s 600 wow

Awesome! I'm actually not sure how to do that

This printer comes with a photo sleeve that protects the photo as it feeds through the scanner. It scans the sleeve and the photo so the sleeve serves as a white background to the photo.

You might have to dust off the photos if they contain dust, otherwise the scanner will likely pick it up.

You can choose any folder on your computer. You can also plug in a USB drive and save the pictures on there too.

Yes you can specify the output folder on an external drive

@@TonyFlorida thank you.

Yes, there is an option for autocorrecting. It can generate an autocorrected version of the photo in addition to the raw version

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Yep, you can actually see this setting at 1:24 (Instant photos)

@@TonyFlorida Thanks for the reply!

Yes it will 1:12

Hi thanks for the suggestion. I have no experience with that one

I'm not familiar with the sleeve. It does not come with this scanner

I haven’t bought one yet but the epson website says the scanning sheet which can be used to scan small/delicate/torn/thicker cardboard backed photos etc is included in the box along with a microfibre cloth

I purchased the Epson FastFoto FF-680w in 2020 for $425.00, currently it sells for $600. My goal was to digitize every photo and document my wife and I collected in our eighty plus years before we left Utah in October 2021. No more moving stacks of memory boxes. Now, every picture and document has be scanned and saved onto a 5TB Hard drive and then duplicated to four additional 5TB drives and given to our children and adult grand children. I highly recommend the FF-680w. It was the perfect tool to complete my monster project. Even the oldest of my parents pictures were color corrected as they went through the scanner. The additional graphic tools provided with the Epson will do it all. The smallest pictures were placed together in the Clear Sleeve and easily duplicated. With the thousands of pictures I scanned I did need to replace the original clear sleeve. I used it many time for odd sizes of drawings, business cards, drivers licenses, and Polaroid Photos. It is important to keep the scanner clean and you will get reminders to help you. Cleaning is not difficult once you learn what and where. My wife and I are so thankful Epson helped us digitize our lifetime of pictures. Do you want to know the next step in using those pictures in telling your life stories?

I think another backfire to this scanner is the order they're scanner. The photos are fed in from the back, so it scans the last page first and the first page last. If they're in particular order, there is one program that renames files and you can reverse the order of the numbering. It takes learning, but once you understand the program, it take 10 seconds to do. BulkRenameUtility - I use it multiple times a day.

@@Sean.1972 Thanks Sean...For some odd reason I could't figure it out. I tried many ways to fed them and it always stacked them as it pleased. However, I did notice that the more colours (pixels) the pictures had the longer it took to upload ...hence those pictures were stacked at the end. Maybe if I have 16 hours again ....I will try it again one day haha. Besides that...its a great scanner.

I have the 2TB plan on Google which I pay extra for

Yes, thank you

When you upload all your photos Google will automatically group faces and you will need to name them manually. Every so often Google will then show you two similar faces and ask for your confirmation on whether or not its the same person, its actually a fun little exercise. Regarding cost - You'll need to pay $30-50 a year for a decent chunk of photos and upwards of $100 for an enormous collection. This cost is somewhat negible considering the features you have access to - Auto face grouping, lifetime backup of your photos etc.

Great question, Elizabeth! I’d love to know the answer to this too. Also I wonder how often the scanner gets “jammed” or messes up the scan of a few consecutive photos in a large batch because-for example-multiple photos accidentally get fed through the fast scanning system at the same time. I’ve had issues like this with similar scanners like this one, and I’m wondering if it’s also the case for this Epson scanner?

You can probably mix sizes in the stacks, but the smaller ones might rotate a bit when going into the feeder. I always scanned different sizes separately

We scan slides, negatives and photos. We recommend an external drive, or two, for safety. You can also be store in a cloud. Most do charge by month, though. Warning: Some free cloud storage sites shrink your files so they don't take up a lot of space and you lose the actual scan quality.

Yes. All photo files will be accessible on your filesystem through Windows Explorer

I not familiar with the edge feature, but I don't think it's present on this model

Does this Epson DS-510 scan both sides of the photos on one file? Or will be 2 files with back and frontside? Can it simply count the filename up as 10001, 10002, etc

@@Gabber1981 yes you can select either one side or both. You can have it stitch together as one image or separate. And yes you can set the naming convention.

Yes it will

@@TonyFlorida Thanks Tony!

Great question, Dominic! Can these 8.5”x11” scans be output as PDF files, or does the scanner only create JPG and TIFF file types?

That's very possible. You can specify the hard drive in the Epson software

Thanks! Not sure about that error

You can definitely do this on a memory stick. I'm not sure if Google Photos has a slideshow feature

@@TonyFlorida thank you!

The scanner did not bend the photos. File sizes were around 5 or 6 MB for a 3"x5"

@@TonyFlorida great, thanks for the info!

Not familiar with that sorry

I don't think so

Not that I'm familiar with

That's my understanding

I don't know

You can choose the USB drive as the scan destination directory

A flatbed scanner would be more ideal for this if you have lots, or even taking a picture with your phone if just a few

you might try gluing it to a larger piece of paper, then cropping the scanned image

Not with this scanner

I don't think so

I uploaded as full quality ~44GB 4:20

@@TonyFlorida wow--you must have extra storage, then on google..

@@TonyFlorida Thanks for the answer..🙂

Thanks for the info George

You can scan to TIFF with this scanner too.

You can adjust the holder on the feeder to the size of the photos

No it cannot

Not that I've noticed

If you can get cheaper than $0.36/photo locally, then do that. Otherwise, the scanner is worth it. You could always sell it as used after you're done with it

Yes